What's the use of art? : Asian visual and material culture in context / Jan Mrázek and Morgan Pitelka, editors

Published:: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2008]
Copyright Date:: ©2008
Physical Description:: 313 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Additional Creators:: Pitelka, Morgan, 1972- and Mrázek, Jan

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Contents:

Acknowledgments -- Introduction : Wrapping and unwrapping art / Morgan Pitelka -- Functions -- From the living rock : understanding figural representation in early South Asia / Robert Decaroli -- Disposable but indispensable : the earthenware vessel as vehicle of meaning in Japan / Louise Allison Cort -- From the wedding chamber to the museum : relocating the ritual arts of Madhubani / Richard H. Davis -- In the realm of the indigo queen : dyeing, exchange magic, and the elusive tourist dollar on Sumba / Janet Hoskins -- Movements -- Plunder, markets, and museums : the biographies of Chinese imperial objects in Europe and North America / James L. Hevia -- Situating moving objects : a Sino-Japanese catalogue of imported items, 800 CE to the present / Cynthea J. Bogel -- Memories -- Angkor revisited : the state of statuary / Ashley Thompson -- An ancestral keris, Balinese kingship, and a modern presidency / Lene Pedersen -- Raw ingredients and deposit boxes in Balinese sanctuaries : a congruence of obsessions / Kaja M. McGowan -- Conclusion : Ways of experiencing art: art history, television, and Javanese wayang / Jan Mrázek -- Contributors -- Index.

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9780824830632 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0824830636 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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